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Biden’s brother was hired to broker secret $140M Saudi deal · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden's brother, we now have learned, was hired to
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Speaker 1: broker a secret one hundred and twenty million dollars Saudi
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Speaker 1: deal when Joe Biden was the Vice president. New documents
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Speaker 1: are revealing. Now you would assume that this deal, that
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Speaker 1: was a secret deal worth a hundred and forty million
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Speaker 1: dollars specifically with the Saudis, would be getting some media
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Speaker 1: attention right now. You would be wrong. James Biden, the
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Speaker 1: President's brother, has been the bagman for decades for Joe Biden.
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Speaker 1: We know that from documents, We know that from the
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Speaker 1: Laptop from Hell. But when Hunter Biden became of age
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Speaker 1: and he got kicked out of the military for cocaine,
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Speaker 1: he became the new useful idiot. He was the one
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Speaker 1: that could take bigger risk because he was the son
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Speaker 1: of the vice president and now the son of the president,
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Speaker 1: and James Biden at that point didn't have to be
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Speaker 1: the bag man anymore. He moved up in the crime family.
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Speaker 1: But what we do know is when it came to
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Speaker 1: the really big deals like the one I just mentioned,
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Speaker 1: he had no problem being involved. The now first brother,
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Speaker 1: James Biden, we know for a fact, was hired to
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Speaker 1: help a Philadelphia construction company resolve a decades old dispute
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Speaker 1: with a Saudi government because he was the sibling of
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Speaker 1: then Vice President Joe Biden. Court documents revealed this isn't
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Speaker 1: just an accident. Okay, this is court documents. These are
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Speaker 1: real court documents. The two thousand and seventeen admission by
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Speaker 1: James Biden, referenced in two affidavids from May of last
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Speaker 1: year twenty twenty one, is starting to draw the attention
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Speaker 1: of the GOP House Let Oversight Committee. Why because they're
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Speaker 1: investigating the families the first family's massive influence peddling dating
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Speaker 1: back decades. The Affidavid, which was first obtained by The
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Speaker 1: Dailymail dot Com, was filed in a dispute between the
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Speaker 1: construction company called Hill International and one of three law
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Speaker 1: firms that hired to help clawback approximately one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty million that the Saudis owed for a desalinization plant
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Speaker 1: built by this company in the nineteen eighties. Now, the
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Speaker 1: law firm Lankford and Reid claimed that Hill International also
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Speaker 1: hired James Biden He's now seventy three, back in two
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Speaker 1: eleven to negotiate quote a secret deal with the Saudis
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Speaker 1: to settle the dispute and get out of paying Link
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Speaker 1: for the forty percent cut outlined in their contract in
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Speaker 1: two and seventeen. In July, Thomas Sullivan, a former Treasury
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Speaker 1: Department official turned private invent sikator hired by Lankford, drove
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Speaker 1: to James Biden's home in Philadelphia discussed his role with Hill.
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Speaker 1: According to sullivan sworn statement, James Biden said he was
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Speaker 1: hired to handle Hill's business development and had been assigned
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Speaker 1: to help with the company's interests in Saudi Arabia. The
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Speaker 1: first brother added that he was often tapped to represent
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Speaker 1: Hill in meetings because, of course the name didn't hurt
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Speaker 1: why last name Biden. James Biden also told Sullivan that
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Speaker 1: he had attended a February twenty twelve meeting with Saudi
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Speaker 1: officials at which Hill would receive final payment for the
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Speaker 1: plant now, Biden also added and again listened very carefully.
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Speaker 1: Biden added that he had attended the meeting quote because
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Speaker 1: of his position and relationship with his older brother, then
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Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States of America, the
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Speaker 1: number two to Barack Obama. According to the president's sibling,
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Speaker 1: Hill's payment for its work would be made in both
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Speaker 1: cash and a very large amount of future business, Sullivan said.
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Speaker 1: After the meeting, Sullivan allads that James Biden's wife, Sarah,
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Speaker 1: walked him to his car and revealed that her husband
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Speaker 1: and his older brother, Joe Biden, the Vice president, were
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Speaker 1: very close and that they told each other everything. Now,
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Speaker 1: if this isn't what a crime family does, and a
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Speaker 1: crime family acts like I mean, this is an essence
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Speaker 1: a shake down. Hey, just so you know, my husband
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Speaker 1: tells his brother everything. Who's your husband? Everybody knows it?
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Speaker 1: Or who's the brother? Right, everybody knows it. It's the
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Speaker 1: quote he doesn't like us talking to people, The ex
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Speaker 1: treasury Man recalled, I didn't ask for a further explanation,
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Speaker 1: Sullivan said, since I was looking at two large men
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Speaker 1: in dark suits and a big black sedan parked on
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Speaker 1: a side street, looking directly into their house down the
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Speaker 1: walkway I had just exited. I thought they were some
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Speaker 1: type of security, probably secret Service. Well, the Vice president's
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Speaker 1: brother shouldn't get secret service protection. We'll deal with that
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Speaker 1: in a minute. In a separate Affidavid Langford and read
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Speaker 1: partner Thomas Langford allege that his firm and the Saudis
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Speaker 1: had tentatively agreed on a settlement of Hill's claims worth
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Speaker 1: around one hundred million by November twenty eleven. However, after
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Speaker 1: James Biden's February twenty twelve meeting with Saudi officials, Hill
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Speaker 1: initially went dark quote unquote, then claim that the Saudis
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Speaker 1: had backed off on the statement. According to Langford, Hill
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Speaker 1: International CEO had told him that he had just retained
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Speaker 1: James Biden because the Saudis quote would not dare stiff
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Speaker 1: the brother of the Vice President, who would be instrumental
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Speaker 1: to that deal. So the quid pro quo is in.
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Speaker 1: It's there, it's right there again. According to Langford, the
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Speaker 1: Hill International CEO had told him direct, hey, I retain
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Speaker 1: James Biden for this massive deal because the Saudis wouldn't
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Speaker 1: dare screw with a Vice president because if the brothers involved,
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Speaker 1: they knew they couldn't get away with it, because the
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Speaker 1: Saudis need a good relationship with the United States government,
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Speaker 1: and that means a good relationship with Joe Biden. Lankford's
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Speaker 1: Affidavid again, these are court documents, does not elaborate on
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Speaker 1: why the CEO believe Joe Biden would be instrumental to
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Speaker 1: any settlement. It doesn't matter because we can all figure
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Speaker 1: that out because we all know why, because it's the Saudis.
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Speaker 1: The Saudis need a good relationship with Joe Biden, and
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Speaker 1: they need a good relationship with the Hillary Clinton. They
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Speaker 1: need a good relationship with Barack Obama, and this is
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Speaker 1: a way to go. Well, crap, we got to pay
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Speaker 1: the money. What gets even more interesting is this, after
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Speaker 1: the President's brother, James Biden's February twenty twelve meeting, Lankford
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Speaker 1: said that the CEO seemed indifferent to the ongoing dispute
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Speaker 1: and communicated with the law firms only infrequently. In addition,
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Speaker 1: Lankford claimed the US government officials who had previously been
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Speaker 1: helpful became guarded and emphasize that Hill was doing a
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Speaker 1: lot of business in Saudi Arabia. At some point after
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, when Lankford said that the CEO declined his
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Speaker 1: offer to sue the Saudis to sell the debt, James
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Speaker 1: Biden revealed that Hill and another man had secretly agreed
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Speaker 1: to settle through the award of future contracts. According to Lankford,
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Speaker 1: James Biden also say that the settlement may have involved
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Speaker 1: a massive cash payment directly to the CEO. That seems
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Speaker 1: shady as hell, right, CEO's taking a settlement, but the
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Speaker 1: CEO's getting direct cash payments. That's not going on the
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Speaker 1: company's books. And not only that, you're guaranteeing future contracts,
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Speaker 1: all because Joe Biden's brothers involved. As of May twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, Lankford claimed that Hill International and its affiliates
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Speaker 1: had been awarded three hundred and fifty eight million from
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Speaker 1: the Saudis in construction management contracts since February twenty eleven,
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Speaker 1: after doing virtually quote no business with them. It's unclear
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Speaker 1: from the affidavit how much James Biden was paid for
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Speaker 1: his work on Hill's behalf. A representative for the First
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Speaker 1: Brother denied that any negotiations took place, but that's not
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Speaker 1: what the court documents state. Now, the Biden crime family
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Speaker 1: consistently now has the same excuse when they're accused of wrongdoing.
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Speaker 1: Here's an example of what Jim Biden's representative said in
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Speaker 1: a statement to the New York Post quote, this entire
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Speaker 1: story is yet another attempt to smear Jim Biden. Mister
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Speaker 1: I never negotiated with the Saudi government on behalf of
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Speaker 1: him or any other entity. That's not what the court
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Speaker 1: documents say. President Biden, by the way, has long denied
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Speaker 1: having any knowledge of his family's foreign business deals, including
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Speaker 1: those involving James, his brother, his wife, and the first son,
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. James and Hunter, by the way, were previously
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Speaker 1: linked to a planned multimillion dollars deal with Chinese Communist
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Speaker 1: state back energy conglomerate CEFE, which is currently being pro
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Speaker 1: by federal investigators. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer asked
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Speaker 1: the Treasury Department in July of last year for information
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Speaker 1: and transactions flagged as suspicious activity that involved the first
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Speaker 1: brothers activities in the Middle East, so the idea that
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Speaker 1: he never did business there is obviously absurd. He specifically
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Speaker 1: asked last July from the Treasury Department about deals in
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and har where James Biden acquired relationships over
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Speaker 1: the course of Joe Biden's time in elected office. This
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Speaker 1: as evidence continues to mount. Quote that the Biden family
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Speaker 1: used Joe Biden's name to secure massive deals around the
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Speaker 1: world ten rants themselves. That's what James Comer said on Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: The Treasury Department must provide the suspicious activity reports generated
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Speaker 1: for the Biden family and their associates and former investigation
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Speaker 1: about the Biden family's business schemes and Joe Biden's involvement.
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Speaker 1: If Joe Biden is compromised by his families deals, this
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Speaker 1: is a national security threat. James Comber went on to say, Now,
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Speaker 1: let's pause on the brother of the President, James Biden
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Speaker 1: for a second. Let's move back to Hunter Biden, because
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Speaker 1: there's been new movement when it comes to Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to this from Fox News this morning
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Speaker 1: two and the Hunter Biden's standal. Now, the President's son
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Speaker 1: was bragging about his relationship ship with former President Obama's
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Speaker 1: ambassador to China just before his business associates arranged multiple
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Speaker 1: meetings with him. Not so according to emails found on
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's laptop reviewed by Fox News. Now Former Democratic
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Speaker 1: Senator Max Bacchus was sworn in by then Vice President
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Speaker 1: Biden as the US Ambassador to China in late February
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. About two months later, Hunter Biden said this
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Speaker 1: in an email, you know, from the laptop, as his
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Speaker 1: associates for setting up meetings with that brand new ambassador
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Speaker 1: to China on Bacchus, we have a very very good
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Speaker 1: relationship and I can ask anything we need about the Chinese,
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Speaker 1: like that their communist government. A Republican member of the
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Speaker 1: House Oversight says, this raises more questions for President Biden.
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Speaker 1: Then candidate Biden told the American people Dagan that he
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Speaker 1: did not have any business dealings, He didn't have any
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Speaker 1: knowledge of the business dealings of his son. We found
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Speaker 1: out through the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story
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Speaker 1: that that wasn't the case at all. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: folks in China, and this could be and after the
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Speaker 1: president think about this, the President of the United States
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Speaker 1: could be compromised. Well, And that's the whole point of
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Speaker 1: all of this. It's not some fascination with Hunter Biden
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Speaker 1: and what he types on it's national security and the president.
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Speaker 1: Jason Chafitz, Fox News contributor and former Utah Congressman Jason
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Speaker 1: This comes at a time when China's been flying stuff
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Speaker 1: over as trying to get information, and we can't even
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Speaker 1: get our hands on everything on the laptop. They deny
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Speaker 1: it for two years. Yeah, and the government has had
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Speaker 1: that material for years now. I think they've known for
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Speaker 1: a long time at the FBI, the Department of Justice
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Speaker 1: that this is a problem. In this particular case with
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Speaker 1: the former senator from Montana, Max Bacchus. Remember Max Bacchus
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Speaker 1: goes into office with Joe Biden. They're both senators. At
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Speaker 1: the time that Hunter Biden was eight years old and
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden just had a birthday. He's now fifty three
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Speaker 1: years old. So to say that he has a very
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Speaker 1: very good relationship is probably not a stretch of the imagination.
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Speaker 1: The problem is Hunter Biden takes a steak in BHG.
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Speaker 1: I think it's the organization there that has a steak
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Speaker 1: in China. It's tied with Chinese intelligence officials. Hunter Biden
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Speaker 1: is flying on Air Force two with the Vice President
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Speaker 1: to China and obviously using these connections to come up
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Speaker 1: with business deals that enrich the Biden family by the
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars. So, Jason, is this the sort of
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Speaker 1: thing because now things are kind of tied together more
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Speaker 1: and at the nexus of all of this is a
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Speaker 1: country that hates us so badly that when COVID was writing,
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Speaker 1: they didn't even give anybody a heads up, least of
15:55
Speaker 1: all us. So badly that when they were flying a
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Speaker 1: spycraft over they said it was a weather balloon that
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Speaker 1: had blown off course on a non windy day. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you look at this, should the American people have
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Speaker 1: known about what was going on with the Biden's before
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Speaker 1: they voted in the last presidential election? Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: that's what's so offensive about these intelligence officials that tried
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Speaker 1: to suppress and dismiss this information, you know, and to
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Speaker 1: go after Donald Trump. It's about China not being not
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Speaker 1: being held accountable. All of this ties together. Everybody should
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Speaker 1: have known because the reporting was actually there, but the
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Speaker 1: stories were suppressed. And still to this day, we don't
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Speaker 1: understand about Hunter Biden's art dealings. We don't understand how
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Speaker 1: much money he still may have coming out of China.
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Speaker 1: How is it the Bidens. Joe Biden is a United
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Speaker 1: States Senator on one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: a year salary. How is it that he has beach
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Speaker 1: houses in multimillion dollar mansions and you start to look
16:59
Speaker 1: at well he exclaiming that he owned some of these houses,
17:02
Speaker 1: then he doesn't own him. I mean, the paperwork is
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Speaker 1: really fuzzy here. And this is what gets the American
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Speaker 1: people all this privilege that ends up in the bank
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Speaker 1: account of the Biden family. And why isn't that exposed.
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Speaker 1: You have to fill out financial disclosure forms, but it
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Speaker 1: seems that those are incomplete. Incomplete is a kind way
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Speaker 1: of putting it. These financial disclosure forms admitted hardcore information,
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Speaker 1: I would say, evidence of just how much money the
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Speaker 1: Biden crime family was bagging for themselves. And if you
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Speaker 1: needed a fix in and you were representing somebody that
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Speaker 1: needed something done in another country around the world, all
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Speaker 1: you needed was a Biden to show up at a meeting,
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Speaker 1: and that cost of having you show up seems to
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Speaker 1: always be in the millions of dollars. And James Biden
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Speaker 1: understood this right, He understood how to do this, He
17:57
Speaker 1: understood how important it was to be at certain meetings
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Speaker 1: so that a person with a last name Biden is
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Speaker 1: actually there. He was good at it too. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about decades of exploiting the family, last name and his
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Speaker 1: brother's position, whether it was a senator or as the
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Speaker 1: vice president or now as a president. Now what we
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Speaker 1: know now here and again, this is another important point
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Speaker 1: about all this that people really need to understand is
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Speaker 1: the Biden crime family. Basically, when Hunter Biden became of age,
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Speaker 1: it just expanded their reach financially. It allowed them to
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Speaker 1: make more money, It allowed them to double up on deals.
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Speaker 1: It allowed the Bidens to be at two places at once.
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Speaker 1: James Biden could be hanging with the Saudis getting that
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Speaker 1: deal done, while Hunter Biden could be hanging out with
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Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs or Chinese communist government officials, or Mexican corrupt
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Speaker 1: businessmen who desperately need a deal in the US or
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Speaker 1: needed to get out a jail card in the US.
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Speaker 1: Never forget, one of the men in Cefe who was
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Speaker 1: charged with crimes the United States America hired Hunter Biden
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Speaker 1: as his lawyer for a million dollar retainer. That's what
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Speaker 1: we know about. Who knows how much money could have
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Speaker 1: miss at an American airport, though this one never made
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Speaker 1: the news. What's happening here? We wanted to know what
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Speaker 1: is going on in commercial aviation. Clearly something is, so
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Speaker 1: we reached out to someone who's flown for the airlines
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Speaker 1: for many years. The following account was written in December
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Speaker 1: by a veteran United Airlines pilot. Under its woke CEO,
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Speaker 1: Scott Kirby, United Airlines has allowed politics and racialist ideology
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Speaker 1: to trump safety concerns. According to this pilot, who works
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Speaker 1: for Scott Kirby right now, those decisions have put the
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Speaker 1: lives of passengers in grave danger. Quote name redacted just
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Speaker 1: told me about a B Triple seven off Maui that
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Speaker 1: almost crashed two nights ago. Both pilots became disoriented and
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Speaker 1: pulled out of a dive three hundred feet above the water,
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Speaker 1: pulling two and a half g's. I'm just home from
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Speaker 1: Denver training center. There's some real horror stories out there
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Speaker 1: about United management is hell bent on just ignoring what
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Speaker 1: is going on. The investigation is still ongoing. But the
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Speaker 1: captain of the Maui flight was brand new. There was
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Speaker 1: a new hire first officer, and my understanding is that
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Speaker 1: we almost lost an airplane for no good reason. Both
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Speaker 1: have been sent back to go through the four week course.
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Speaker 1: The new hire here on my fleet is a nightmare.
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Speaker 1: It took him fifty hours to get through initial operating experience.
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Speaker 1: Worse yet, talking to his instructor, out of his twenty
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Speaker 1: five landings in the simulator, fifteen ended up in the dirt.
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Speaker 1: Not one of them was on the center line of
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Speaker 1: the runway. They said his radio work was like that
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Speaker 1: of a private pilot. He has no situational awareness. I'm
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Speaker 1: jump seating to SFO right now. A United Beat Triple
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Speaker 1: seven first officer is next to me. She said the
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Speaker 1: training is totally inadequate for new hires. Her husband helps
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Speaker 1: train them at United's in house Pilot Academy AVI eight.
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Speaker 1: He's constantly asking these kids who come in, has anyone
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Speaker 1: told you what this is? Many have no idea what
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Speaker 1: they're getting into. They're hiring people straight out of high
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Speaker 1: school now zero aviation knowledge or desire. It's just about
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Speaker 1: the money and adhering to esg end quote. And it's
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Speaker 1: not just United, it's everywhere. Southwest airlines in house pilot
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Speaker 1: training program called Destination two to five has dramatically lowered
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Speaker 1: its standards. Many of its graduates wind up working for
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Speaker 1: a charter company called Swift Air, which is under contract
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Speaker 1: from the Biden administration to fly illegal aliens around the
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Speaker 1: country without the American population knowing about it, but other
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Speaker 1: graduates wind up flying for Southwest Airlines. Last year, a
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Speaker 1: newly hired first officer in a Southwest flight formerly a
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Speaker 1: flight attendant, hit the runway so hard on landing that
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Speaker 1: a crew member was gravely injured. So this is what
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Speaker 1: it looks like in real terms. When you decide that
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Speaker 1: identity is more important than aptitude in something critical like aviation,
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Speaker 1: at some point many people are going to die because
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Speaker 1: of this. You should know that the scary part is
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Speaker 1: he's predicting what many have been talking about. I take
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Speaker 1: flying lessons, I love flying, and I can tell you
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Speaker 1: that I'm hearing stories like this often. I'm also hearing
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Speaker 1: from different people that are telling me different things about
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Speaker 1: what they're witnessing and what they're seeing. There are other concerns.
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Speaker 1: The United statement, by the way, on this takeoff from
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Speaker 1: Hawaii is another issue here. After landing at s FO,
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Speaker 1: the pilots filed the appropriate safety report, United said. United
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Speaker 1: then closely coordinated with FAA and the AOPA on the investigation.
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Speaker 1: The ultimately resulted in the pilots receiving additional training. Safety
26:48
Speaker 1: remains our highest priority. United sets there's a problem here, right,
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Speaker 1: How is it the people with this little experience are
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Speaker 1: getting in these positions? Of course, United talking about the
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Speaker 1: plane flat facts of United Flights seventeen twenty two sudden
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Speaker 1: descent after takeoff from Hawaii and in December, says well,
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Speaker 1: if you have questions, right, this is to their staffers.
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Speaker 1: The concerns about this flight were self reported, and we
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Speaker 1: have a rigorous system in place for addressing these issues,
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Speaker 1: and it worked as it should in this case. The
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Speaker 1: story they say linked above describes a safety program which
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Speaker 1: is central to United safety culture, saying the major US
27:31
Speaker 1: airlines all have a voluntary and confidential self reporting structure
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Speaker 1: for incidents. There are thousands of reports filed each year
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Speaker 1: across airlines like United, but the system is designed to
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Speaker 1: capture and learn from each one without focusing blame on individuals.
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Speaker 1: These systems, which prioritize mitigating the risk of a reoccurrence
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Speaker 1: and emphasized training, are a major reason why the US
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Speaker 1: aviation industry has a track record of safety that it does.
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Speaker 1: United also said the pilots from the flight self reported
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Speaker 1: the event and fully cooperated with the investigation. The two
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Speaker 1: pilots involved have approximately twenty five thousand hours of flying
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Speaker 1: experience between them. The incident was not NTSB reportable, so
28:16
Speaker 1: this is how they're dealing with major issues. The plane
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Speaker 1: facts United Flight seventeen twenty two sudden to send after
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Speaker 1: takeoff from Hawaii in December. Well, it's all fine because
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Speaker 1: we've got self reporting going on. There's also concerns now
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Speaker 1: that many airlines are still mandating the vaccine for new
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Speaker 1: pilots coming in, so if you don't want to get
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Speaker 1: the vaccine, you're not getting a job, which makes it
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Speaker 1: even a smaller pool of people to get access to
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Speaker 1: the best pilots. Because the government and these entities have
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Speaker 1: gone totally woke over any type of sanity on safety. Now,
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Speaker 1: the last thing that Tucker said there, I think is
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Speaker 1: absolutely right. We're putting this woke ideology and this you know,
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Speaker 1: we have diversity over the safety of people in this
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Speaker 1: country right now that are flying. I want the best
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Speaker 1: damn pilot in the box. I want the best staff
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Speaker 1: on the plane. I want the best trained flight attendants
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Speaker 1: on the plane. I don't want a woke flight crew,
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Speaker 1: even if that flight crew had exactly the same political
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Speaker 1: ideology as I have. If they're not the best, I
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Speaker 1: don't want them. I'll take a hardcore group of liberals
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Speaker 1: on a flight if they're the best people for that flight,
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Speaker 1: because at that moment in time, I'm worried about safety.
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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about politics, and I'm not worried about
29:46
Speaker 1: checking boxes. This administration, however, is completely focused on checking boxes.
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